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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 28 December 2025
Answers to the questions on world railways:
(1) When Mr and Mrs William Farmer of Margate, near Dover,
travelled across England to Wales in 1971 for their summer
holidays, the British Rail mystery tour they boarded in Wales
took them straight back to Margate. Declining a tour of the
town, Mr and Mrs Farmer popped home for a cup of tea. (Book
of Heroic Failures)
(2) The form of US transport where the driver puts the main
brake on when he wants to go and releases it when he wants
to stop is the San Francisco cable-cars. The main brake grips
the cable.
(3) On 11 June 1998 the Japanese train sent to help another
that had broken down got it moving by crashing into it, injuring
35. (Question was: " On 11 June 1998 a Japanese train
was sent to help another that had broken down. How did the
second train get the first one moving?")
(4) The anagram from “Blimey! A later wait” is
“railway timetable”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 21 December 2025
Answers to the questions on countries:
(1) All of Germany, Denmark, Poland, Sweden and Russia have
ruled Latvia.
(2) To travel due east from Azerbaijan to Azerbaijan, you
pass through Armenia—it separates the two parts of Azerbaijan.
(Question was: "To travel due east from Azerbaijan to
Azerbaijan, what country do you pass through?")
(3) Seven countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia,
USA, Canada and Greenland—are partly north of the Arctic
Circle. How many countries are partly south of the Antarctic
Circle? None.
(4) “Open chip shop, eat rice, be full!” is an
anagram of “The People’s Republic of China”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 14 December 2025
Answers to the questions on capital cities:
(1) What do the capital cities of Andorra, Djibouti, Gibraltar,
Guatemala, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, Monaco, Panama, San
Marino and Singapore have in common? The capital’s name
is the same as its country’s name.
(2) The world’s last capital city alphabetically is
Zagreb.
(3) The capital city within a capital city is Vatican City.
It is within Rome.
(4) The anagram from “So, if all clean air’s
gone?” is Los Angeles, California
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 7 December 2025
Answers to the questions on seas:
(1) Unless extraction of water slows from rivers which flow
into the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest,
the lake will disappear before 2050. (Guinness Book of Records)
(The question was: " The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest
lake in the world. Where is it expected to rank in 2050?")
(2) The country furthest from the sea (ie has all its borders
furthest from the nearest sea or ocean), is Mongolia.
(3) What way does water flow in the Strait of Gibraltar?
East and west. The surface flow carries Atlantic water eastward
into the Mediterranean Sea, where it is subject to strong
evaporation. The water’s salinity increases, making
it denser. It then sinks and returns to the Atlantic Ocean
by flowing westward along the bottom of the strait.
(4) The anagram of “rainfall saga” is “Niagara
Falls”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 30 November 2025
Answers to the questions on seas:
(1) The name “Dead Sea” is appropriate except
for two problems: it is not dead and it is not a sea. It is
not dead because salt-loving micro-organisms thrive there.
And it is a lake, not a sea. (Reader's Digest Book of Facts).
(Question was: "What is wrong with the name "Dead
Sea"?")
(2) No-one drowned in the Dead Sea in the 1900s. It is 25
percent salt, making the water very heavy so no-one can drown
in it. (Absolute Trivia). (Question was: "Approximately
how many people drowned in the Dead Sea in the 1900s?")
(3) The Caspian Sea is not a sea. It is the world’s
largest lake.
(4) The anagram of “lies stranded” is “desert
island”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 16 November 2025
Answers to the questions on mountains:
(1) Rock Reef Pass, Everglades, Florida, USA, claims to be the world’s
lowest pass. It is two metres high. (Question was: "How high is
the world's lowest pass? (a) less than 500 metres (b) about 50 metres
(c) more than 1000 metres")
(2) The world’s longest mountain range, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge,
is rarely seen because it is under water. (Question was: "Why is
most of the world's longest mountain range rarely seen?")
(3) All 10 of the USA’s highest mountains are in Alaska. (Question
was: "All 10 of the USA's highest mountains are in the same state.
Which state is this?")
(4) The anagram of “Ultra Asia” is “Australia”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 9 November 2025
Answers to the questions on continents:
(1) Istanbul, in Turkey, is on two continents – part
in Europe and part in Asia. (Question was: What city is on
two continents?)
(2) One of the 54 African countries, Liberia, has not been
ruled by a foreign power. (Book of Answers.) (Question was:
Of the 54 countries that make up the African continent, how
many have not been ruled by a foreign power?)
(3) Only one continent—Antarctica —has no land
below sea level.
(4) The unusual spelling feature common to the names of every
continent (taking North and South America as America) is its
first letter is the same as its last.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 2 November 2025
Answers to the questions on waterfalls:
(1) Each second in a very wet season, 13 million litres of
water flows over Iguazu Falls.
(2) In a very dry season, the flow is zero.
(3) The Guaira Falls, on the Parana River between Paraguay
and Brazil, are no longer the world’s largest waterfall
because they are now under water. This follows the completion
20 years ago of the Itaipu Dam. (Reader's Digest Book of Facts)
(4) A famous North American landmark that is constantly moving
backwards is Niagara Falls.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 26 October 2025
(1) What do Baku, Bandar Seri Begawan, Ouagadougo, Bujumbura,
Nuuk, Tegucigalpa, Nidjamena Yamoussoukra, Antananarivo and
Paramaribo have in common? They are all capital cities (of
Azerbaijan, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Greenland,
Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar and Surinam).
(2) The name Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, means “you
never sleep”. (The question was: "What does the
name Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, mean? (a) meeting place
of the tribes (b) you never sleep (c) boil your carrots in
the wet season")
(3) The most southerly capital city is Wellington, New Zealand.
(4) The most northerly capital city is Reyjavik, Iceland.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 19 October 2025
(1) The country with more fresh water than any other is Canada.
(2) Monaco has the world’s shortest coastline. (The
question was "What country has the shortest coastline,
a grand total of three kilometres? If you’d like a clue,
it’s in Europe.")
(3) 75% of the world’s fresh water is stored as ice.
(4) When we asked last week for the name of the world’s
highest lake, we suggested this question was impossible. And
it is. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this lake
has no name. It’s in Tibet.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 12 October 2025
(1) The only human-eating creature known to have inhabited
a Pacific island is man.
(2) The island off Cape York where Captain Cook claimed possession
of Australia’s east coast in 1770 is Possession Island.
(3) Assuming you could ascend at a rate of five metres a
minute, the time it would take you to climb to the equivalent
of the highest point on the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is
half a minute. Their summit is 2.4 metres above sea level.
(Question was: " Assuming you could ascend at a rate
of five metres a minute, approximately how long would it take
to climb to the equivalent of the highest point on the Ashmore
and Cartier Islands? ".)
(4) Tory Island is a part of the Republic of Ireland and is owned by the Congested Districts Board for Ireland (which purchased the island in 1903) but the residents maintain considerable independence and govern their own affairs, electing their own king
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 5 October 2025
1) Our site visitor from Iran would have known that it was
previously called Persia and before that it was Iran.
(2) The small republic surrounded by Italy is Communal Democratic
Implementation Republic of the Italian People’s Independent
Movement of San Marino.
(The question was: " A small republic surrounded by Italy
basks under the full name of Communal Democratic Implementation
Republic of the Italian People’s Independent Movement
of … . The … represents two words by which it
is most commonly known. What are these two words?")
(3) Twelve of the 14 countries (or 13 of 15 if we count “America”)
that begin with the letter”a” also end with “a”.
The two that don’t conform are Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
The others are Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra,
Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia,
Aruba, Australia and Austria. Three of the four US states
beginning with “a” also end in “a”
(Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas).
(4) After gaining independence from Britain, Gambia changed
its name to The Gambia.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 28 September 2025
(1) Some Norwegian houses still have grass growing on their
roofs to assist insulation. (Question was : "Why do some
people in northern Norway regularly water their roofs?")
(2) When Olav V was 36th in line of succession to the British
throne in the 1980s he was already king — king of Norway.
(Question was : "Olav V was 36th in line of succession
to the British throne in the 1980s. What were his chances
of being king?)
(3) Besides being first names of people, ALF and EVE are
the airport codes for the Norwegian airport Alfa and Evenes.
And if you’re into airport codes that are people’s
names, here are some more: ABE, BUD, BOB, JOE, MIA, DAN and
FLO. (Question was: Besides being familiar first names, you
could see ALF and EVE printed many times as you tour Norway
by air. Why is this?)
(4) The furthest north you can travel to by car is North
Cape, Norway
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 21 September 2025
(1) Faulconbridge, a town in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney,
has the longest town name in the English language without
a letter repeated. It also has half the letters of the alphabet
and all the vowels. (Question was: "What is special about
the Blue Mountains town name Faulconbridge?")
(2) What is significant about the spelling of the Victorian
town names Colignan and Nangiloc? Each is the reverse of the
other.
(3) Quaama is a town near Bega, on the south coast of the
Australian state New South Wales.
(4) Zanthus, Zillmere, Zilzie and Zuytdorp are all Australian
towns.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 14 September 2025
Trivia questions were about capital cities:
(1) Burkina Faso’s capital city’s name, Ouagadougou,
has eight vowels but only three consonants.
(2) Vatican City has no restaurants or bars. You may know
of other such cities.
(3) The capital city of Latvia, Riga, was the largest city
in Sweden in 1630. Latvia has had the honour of being ruled
by and thus part of Germany, Denmark, Poland, Sweden and Russia.
(The trivia question was "In 1630, Riga, present capital
of Latvia, was the largest city in where? (a) Russia (b) Germany
(c) Sweden")
(4) Brasilia is the South American capital city laid out
in the shape of a plane.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 7 September 2025
Answers to this week's questions on American tennis players:
1 (a) John Isner bounced the ball between his legs before each serve.
2 (a) Denis Shapovalov also bounced the ball through his legs, but did a bit more. His routine was lift shirt sleeves up, bounce the ball through legs while hopping, then bounce the ball through legs while standing still.
3 John McEnroe served with his back to his opponent.
4 Yes. He had six wives, one of whom he married twice.
5 (a) and (b). Bill Tilden could hold five balls in his left hand, use four of them for four aces, then throw the remaining ball into the stands and walk up to shake hands. (Marshall Fisher, A Terrible Splendor)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 31 August 2025
Answers to this week's questions on Australian government:
1 The first name of Governor Isaacs was Isaac.
2 Melbourne was Australia's capital before Canberra.
3 (c) The Newcastle corner of Bull and Dick Streets had the Department of Youth and Community Services office. .
4 On the NSW Coat of Arms.
5 (b) It mean newly risen, how brightly you shine.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 24 August 2025
Answers to this week's questions on spelling:
1 The first and last letters of each word are important, but the order of the other letters does not matter unduly: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg, "The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind". Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Scuh a cdonition is arppoiarptely cllaed Typoglycemia.: "Form the chpaetr of pautunction, why dno't you tpmet your rrdeeas to raed our eignslh lugnaage when selpt like the flowolnig. To utsrndenad the wetritn word, our eeys rlaely need to sghit only the frsit and lsat ltreets of taht wrod, with a mtxirue of the riamennig cerorct lterets agnarred at rodnam in bweteen. Viola, esay, ins't it." (Snydey Mnnriorg Hlared 31-10-07)
2 No, it's repecharge.
3 The six words pronounced "or" are aw, awe, oar, ore and o'er.
4 Each contains, in a row, three consecutive letters of the alphabet.
5 Misstakes, sentance and the number of mistakes (two). The third mistake is the assertion that there are three mistakes.But if there are three mistakes after all, that means that the assertion that there are three mistakes is not a mistake, so we're back to two mistakes. (Sydney Morning Herald 12-2-12)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 17 August 2025
Answers to this week's questions on elementary logic:
1 Johnny (Sun-Herald, Peter FitzSimons)
2 The male bird (Sun-Herald, Peter FitzSimons)
3 1st, 2nd, 3rd
4 He asks for it.
5 Push the cork into the bottle
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 10 August 2025
Answers to this week's questions on country names:
1 (b) Chad, France, Greece and Spain (and possibly Laos).
2 Switzerland
3 Only one - Oman.
4 Zambia
5 Tuvalu
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 3 August 2025
Answers to this week's questions on death:
1 You'd be successful with death if you realised a cryptic crossword clue told you the answer was an anagram of hated.
2 The Texan town is just called West.
3 Catherine Lawrence died at 103 in Young.
4 Deaths from spider bites have been so rare in Australia that the average annual number is less than 1%
5 (c) Lawn bowls had the most deaths.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 27 July 2025
Answers to this week's questions on double meanings:
2 Twelve months can be a prison sentence or a calendar year.
3 Free of an electric charge or a cost.
4 "Tooth and nail" is a common expression or a fight or the work of dentist and manicurist.
5 A will means a deceased person's instructions.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 20 July 2025
Answers to this week's questions on premiers:
1 Annastacia Palaszczuk
2 Palashay
3 (c)
4 Gladys Berejiklian (SMH)
5 (d) Nathan Rees had no driving offences record because he had never held a driver's licence.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 13 July 2025
Answers to this week's questions on Christianity:
1 (c) H. B. Mar Meelis Zaia is the Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East presiding over the Diocese of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon
2 Remain seated
3 They all believed or claimed they were Jesus. (Signs of the Times March 2018)
4 (b) Justin Bieber was baptised in a bathtub.
5 Yes, one worth thousands of dollars (Sydney Morning Herald)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 6 July 2025
Answers to this week's questions on English:
1 The most used word in written English is "the".
2 The most used word in spoken English is also "the".
3 English was not spoken in 500AD.
4 All of them
5 Each stanza is a lipogrammatic pangram. A lipogram doesn’t use a letter of the alphabet (usually E) and a pangram uses every letter (except E in this case).
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 29 June 2025
Answers to this week's questions on weather:
1 Antarctica
2 Antarctica
3 Antarctica
4 (a) All of them. Penrith had the highest ever Sydney temperature (48.9), Canberra (44) had its highest ever temperature (c) Penrith was then the hottest place on the planet
5 Global warming
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 22 June 2025
Answers to this week's questions on the Bible:
1 The Bible has all of those names.
2 (a) Probably Samuel
3 Australia
4 The letter is E, which gives Persevere ye perfect men, ever keep these precepts ten.
5 David won all of his 66 battles.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 15 June 2025
Answers to this week's questions on US town names.
1 Possibly, but it's definitely a town in Florida.
2 Yes. The town of over 1,000 people is near Houston.
3 In Maricopa County, Arizona. The population of Surprise is 140.000.
4 Only is the town's name.
5 The one in Oregon, USA. It is certainly Boring.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 8 June 2025
Answers to this week's questions on athletics:
1 (b) Break up was what Jana Pitman and her fiancée did after her win.
2 Second, as you took that runner's position.
3 You cannot overtake the person who is last. If you are behind that person, he or she can't be last.
4 There is no limit to the distance allowed for a high jumper's run-up.
5 (d) for both. It sounds fraudulent, but it was all under the "Sports Officials" heading on the back page of their brochure. Some sports meeting. But it was also some department store, occupying a whole city block.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 1 June 2025
Answers to this week's questions on inventions:
1 Hungarians Laslow and George Biro invented the biro.
2 The computer mouse
3 Only one—4.00, because that was the time he got up. (Absolute Trivia)
4 The disposable safety razor blade.
5 The ancient Greeks
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 25 May 2025
Answers to this week's questions on cryptic crossword clues:
1 Salami (A bad order of the other letters in Islamabad.)
2 Won ton (Won ton up is not now.)
3 Laundry (The in French is la, wet means undry.)
4 Level (Another word for the in French is le, versus = v, el is the in Spanish.)
5 Launder (The three foreign articles are la, un and der, which are French for the and one and German for the.)
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ending 18 May 2025
1 All of them
2 It has only one chapter, of 14 verses, making it the Bible's shortest book.
3 (c) (Isaiah 20: 2-4)
4 The longest name in the Bible (Isaiah 8:1,3). He is Isaiah's son.
5 In the Old Testament. It's a book of only two chapters and 35 verses.
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ending 11 May 2025
Answers to this week's questions on foreign language:
1 It changes 'n' to 'ny' as in 'canyon'.
2 (a) Metalanguage is a language used to discuss a language.
3 It's from Japanese, but don't worry, most others have been going for Spanish too.
4 Nauruan and Tuvaluan
5 If you didn't answer this question, you get a point for a correct answer. Nauru is the only country that doesn't have an official capital. Its administrative centre is Yaren.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 4 May 2025
Answers to this week's questions on Pope Francis:
1 None. Pope Francis said in May 2015 that he hadn't watched TV since 1990.
2 (b) Jorge Mario Bergoglio
3 (a) Pope Francis was the only pope born outside of Europe since 8th century Syrian pope Gregory III.
4 (b)
5 (b) He was 88.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 27 April 2025
Answers to this week's questions on industry:
1 A wanking machine processes cattle skin.
2 Every employee was named "employee of the month" every month.
3 A safety pin has two shafts and a coil.
4 They were all brand names that became words.
5 Apple ranks first globally, with its brand valued at $574.5 billion in 2025.
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ending 20 April 2025
Answers to this week's questions on colours:
1 A purple finch is crimson.
2 (b) or (c). Black wattle is yellow or green.
3 (c) Elephants are black. They are seen to be black when they emerge from a wash, but immediately they cover themselves in dust, giving a grey appearance
4 They see no colours, just different shades of grey. (As stated in "Can Elephants Swim?")
5 Each word is unique in that it has no other word that rhymes with it.
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ending 13 April 2025
Answer to the week's question on what is common to all the expressions:
They are palindromes. Palindromes read the same forwards and backwards.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 6 April 2025
Answers to this week's questions on food:
1 Veal is the flesh of an animal, usually a calf, killed before its first birthday.
2 (c) mostly, otherwise mainly (b)
3 Yes. First course in the US, second course in Australia.
4 0%. Most are beef burgers.
5 Edam
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ending 30 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on English word world records.
1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. We hope you got the spelling right. The Oxford Dictionary says it's a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine sand and ash dust (mostly volcanic silica ash dust).'
2 Queue is one. Others with vowels outnumbering consonants 5 to 2 are amoeba, evacuee and nouveau.
3 Probably only one, svelte, meaning slim
4 Eau, a watery solution.
5 Claimed to be the longest word that can be reversed to give a different word, is 'desserts'. (stressed).
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ending 23 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on chemistry:
1 Nothing can be burned after being burned once. (Absolute Trivia) If you didn't answer that question, you scored a point.
2 Ununbium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element.
3 Yttrium is a chemical element
4 DNA is the common abbreviation for deoxyribonycleic acid.
5 (c) Trona is a monoclinic mineral.
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ending 16 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on word records:
1 Almost (Absolute Trivia) or begins
2 It is the longest word with no repeated letter.
3 Rhythms
4 Its first five even-numbered letters are all "i"?
5 Typed with only the left hand when using two hands. (Absolute Trivia)
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ending 9 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on double letters:
1 The president of Ukraine has a surname ending in YY.
2 The Ukraine president is Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy. If you were unable to spell all his name, steal a point for this question anyway.
3 Aardvark, eel and llama are animal or fish names.
4 Pizzazz means appeal, charm, glamour and charisma.
5 Ignoring rarely-used words, bookkeeper is the only English word with three consecutive double letters
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ending 2 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on single letters:
1 Headache = A
2 Back of beyond = D
3 Bottle opener = B
4 First aid = A
5 Star of these questions = U
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ending 23 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on capital cities:
1 Only one country has a capital city starting with Q - Quito, Ecuador, South America.
2 Quito appears in mosquito.
3 San Salvador is the capital of El Salvador.
4 Yes. Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and Dakar is the capital of Senegal.
5 USA
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ending 16 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on literature:
1 Very little. Accrodnig to a stduy at an Egnlsih Unvireitsy, it wlil mkae liltte diffeenrce if the letrets isinde a wrod are tasrnposed, as we raed the wrod as a wohle.
2 In print, as it's an epic (in poetry)
3 (a) Standing (The Book of Lists)
4 Youth
5 The Australian Women's Weekly is published monthly.
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ending 9 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on walls:
1 A ruelle is the space between a bed and a wall.
2 Their whole lives. They were often born on the wall, grew up there, married there, died there and were buried within it. Many never left the wall in their entire lives. (Absolute Trivia)
3 (b) While the Huns could scale parts of the wall without ladders, they could not get their horses across. Without their horses they were not very effective conquerors. (Book of Facts)
4 (c). The total of the present and past parts of the Great Wall is 21,196m.
5 (a) Millions of pieces of paper have been left in the cracks in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
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ending 2 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on foreign language:
1 There is no Latin word for "the".
2 They are languages, in all of which the Jehovah's Witnesses published their The Watchtower: Bicol (Philippines), Chichewa (Malawi), Efik (southern Nigeria), Ewe (Ghana, Togo and Benin), Ga (Ghana, in and around the capital Accra) Gun (Benin), Igbo (southern Nigeria), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Luo (4 million in Kenya and Tanzania), Mizo (India, Burma, Bangladesh), Oromo (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Egypt), Tiv (6 million in Nigeria and a few in Cameroon), Twi (principal native language of Ghana), Xhosa (8 million in South Africa) and Zande (Congo and Sudan)
3 (a) and (c) but they don't talk to each other. (Sydney Morning Herald 15-4-11)
4 (b) testicle
5 They have no written form of their language. (www.factmonster.com)
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ending 26 January 2025
Answers to this week's questions on overseas crime:
1 They were handcuffed together and as the fled they ran on either side of the power pole, something one would only think happened in cartoons.
2 (c) (The Week 13-3-09)
3 When three Somalis were killed in April while holding an American captain, Somali pirates were also holding about 230 sailors from more than a dozen ships.
4 Smuggling himself out of Britain, because "I found the country not as pleasant as I had been led to believe." (Time 5-8-02)
5 Drive them.
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ending 19 January 2025
Answers to this week's questions on non-human sex:
1 (a) 40 to 50 times (www.britannica.com)
2 (b) 4
3 Once in its life. (Absolute Trivia)
4 Yes, both
5 Penguins were found to be paying with stones for sex. (Sydney Morning Herald 28-Feb-98)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 12 January 2025
Answers to this week's questions on presidents:
1 Himself
2 Nigeria
3 China president Xi
4 China president Xi
5 (a)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 5 January 2025
A they sometimes take debate.
B free of charge.
C they fought tooth and nail.
D got twelve months.
E dead give away
Answers to this week's common statements:
1A 2D 3E 4B 5C |
